![]() Avian puns abound, and while I could do without the seemingly My Little Pony-inspired pronoun “everybirdie,” there's a lot of hilarity to be found in substituting pigeons for people. If you’re considering buying the game for the sheer weirdness factor, go for it: the writing is both clever and absurd enough to justify the price of entry. The longer you play, the more you realize that the game is a bit of a Trojan horse: a seemingly ludicrous joke that slowly unfolds into something more affecting that it has any right to be, and then peels back yet another layer to become something far, far weirder than the idea of dating birds. (Or as one Steam review put it, “easily the best pigeon dating sim out there.”)īut resist that temptation, for the birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are not what they seem. If you’ve never played the game-which recently got a high-definition remake by Mediatonic and a release on Steam-it’s tempting to dismiss it as a one-off gag. Much like Goat Simulator before it, Hatoful Boyfriend started as a joke-a parody of dating sims whipped up for April Fools’ Day in 2011 by a manga creator who happened to be fond of pigeons. Pigeonation high school, a girl who has to select her love interest from the usual panoply of boy-band archetypes: the shy nerd, the jock, the smooth talker, or even-gasp-the teacher. ![]() ![]() You play as the one and only human student at the elite St. The concept behind Hatoful Boyfriend is simple, but incredibly bizarre: it’s a bird dating sim. But here I was anyway, getting legitimately choked up over whether or not a quail was ever going to love again. The catch, of course, is that he wasn’t a “guy” at all he was a bird. At one point during the dating simulation game Hatoful Boyfriend, I found myself walking through a park with the guy I had a crush on as he confessed his profound grief over a lost love-how her absence had broken something deep in his heart that he might never be able to put back together.
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